Piaget, Jean

PUB. DATE

January 2005

SOURCE

Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary;2005, p1668

SOURCE TYPE

Book

DOC. TYPE

Reference Entry

ABSTRACT

The article presents information on Jean Piaget, a Swiss philosopher and psychologist. Her work provided understanding of how children's thinking differs from adults and of how children learn. He explained that the goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover.

ACCESSION #

21240906

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